Chris Metzen

Chris Metzen, seen here as part of Blizzard Entertainment's production of Pirates of Penzance.

Chris Metzen (born November 22, 1973) is the co-writer (with Flint Dille) of The Transformers: Autocracy and its two follow-up series, Monstrosity and Primacy. Formerly a video game designer at Blizzard Entertainment, he contributed scripts to the Warcraft and StarCraft series, and has begun branching into comic book writing.

Metzen is a serious fan of Transformers, citing The Transformers: The Movie and Simon Furman's body of work as his main inspiration, and has admitted to being a fan of the then-ongoing and All Hail Megatron alongside Maximum Dinobots and Last Stand of the Wreckers.

Metzen went on to become the Chief Creative Officer at Warchief Gaming, and later wrote the foreword to the Transformers Roleplaying Game core rulebook.

External links

• Chris Metzen at Wikipedia
• Chris Metzen's Twitter feed

Interviews

• February 2012—Blizzplanet
• May 2012—The Underbase (with Flint Dille)
• July 2012—The Underbase (with Flint Dille and Livio Ramondelli)